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HelpRe: Micah and Kerstin
in reply to a message by Alice
Micah is MIE-kah, as in MYE-kah or MY-kah. The pronunciation key is provided next to any pronunciation entry, though admittedly it's in rather small font. I quite like Micah (for a boy only, since it was a male name in the Bible), it sounds sweet and offbeat to me.
I don't really care for the look of Kerstin though. If your German or Swedish, I would of course recommend Kerstin to honour your heritage, but otherwise I prefer the Scottish spelling of this name, Kirstin. As for the sound, it's very pretty, but somehow rather bland to me.
EDIT: Clarified and slightly expanded Micah's gender issue.
Miranda
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I don't really care for the look of Kerstin though. If your German or Swedish, I would of course recommend Kerstin to honour your heritage, but otherwise I prefer the Scottish spelling of this name, Kirstin. As for the sound, it's very pretty, but somehow rather bland to me.
EDIT: Clarified and slightly expanded Micah's gender issue.
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This message was edited 6/4/2005, 11:42 AM
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Ah, OK then. I wasn't sure you understood the pronunciation key. :-)
Slightly off-topic... MEE-kah is how you would spell the pronunciation Sarah gave you in the BtN key. I tend to find BtN's pronunciation key very easy to understand once you know what's what, so I tend to use the key when I write my own pronunciations.
Miranda
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Slightly off-topic... MEE-kah is how you would spell the pronunciation Sarah gave you in the BtN key. I tend to find BtN's pronunciation key very easy to understand once you know what's what, so I tend to use the key when I write my own pronunciations.
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